Saturday: At the gym with some friends playing basketball. Start fooling around and having a game on one of the little kid hoops in the corner. My friend comes driving at me and I'm getting ready to go up and block it but I had backed up too much and when I jumped up to swat it my head smashed in to the rim, right into one of the jagged parts.

Hmm...not sure if I can count how many I have had. Two of the three knee surgeries were arthroscopic, so no need for stitches; However, the patella tendon had to be butterflied up, so I had about 75 staple stitches in there.

Outside of that, I've actually needed a bunch more:

- I had ten in the right side of my temple after falling off my bike and catching the metal end of my handlebar into it (there's a little dimple on the side of my head, not even noticable). Was about 11 or so when that happened.

- I had about 25 in my right leg when I slipped off my bike and the bike peddle caught into the lower part of my calf, ripping the leg wide open (my mom said she saw the bone in my leg when I did it, but I lucked out and didn't have any muscle, tendon or ligament damage). I missed a few days of school after that one. I was six when that happened, and I was freaking out, as was everyone else in my family.

- I had about 15 in my right leg directly on my shin - I was about 3 years old when that happened, and to this day we have no idea how I did it. My sister and I were in the living room, and my mom was getting ready to go to work that night, and my sister just looked at my leg and screamed. Got patched up, never spoke of it again._________________

I have one scare that runs parallel with my jaw. I was five years old and it was Christmas time, so I was under the Christmas tree messing with the lights and ornaments. I made the mistake of crawling under the nearby recliner (where my dad was sitting), which was when my dad closed the recliner's legs on my head. A metal bar went into my head (again, just above, and parallel with the jawbone) and wha-la, now there's a big scar.

No stitches though. =D
I think we were too poor for stitches or something :/

I might need surgery on my pinkie because I may torn ligaments in it when it dislocated. Might get a stitch or two from that, but that'll have to wait until footballs over.

I've had a stick (about 1.5 feet long, maybe 2-3 inches around) thrown into my eye socket. luckily the way it was thrown it missed my eye and didn't do any permadamage. But, the best part (to me) was that I covered my eye with my wrist/palm area and blood had been rushing out do fast that it squirted to the top of my hand.

I have a sideways nose, but I don't know how I broke it.

I've had multiple surgeries but for like tonsil removal and other stupid stuff. <3 morphine _________________
"Strength is meaningless in o-line play if there is no explosive, or speed-strength, quality to the strength."
- LeCharles Bentley

Happened like three weeks ago, I got my finger caught in an industrial sized cheese grater.

Needed 7 stitches to resow the tip of my finger back on.

I hate it when that happens.

I'm pretty sure you are trying to make fun of me, but i can't tell if it happened to you or not.

An industrial cheese grater sounds really fake. That's probably why he's making fun if you._________________
"Strength is meaningless in o-line play if there is no explosive, or speed-strength, quality to the strength."
- LeCharles Bentley

Well that makes for a great story. But you should make it better and say the cheese tasted great. _________________
"Strength is meaningless in o-line play if there is no explosive, or speed-strength, quality to the strength."
- LeCharles Bentley

i'm surprised no one has gorier stories to tell here. no abdominal surgeries? long gashes? brain transplants?

Checking in.

Summer after 6th grade my appendix ruptured on the way up to NY to visit family. spent a week in the big hospital in Baltimore for that one [can't remember the name...]

Then in 7th grade I ended up spending 5 weeks at Arnold Palmer in Orlando. Adhesions from my appendix surgery ended up wrapping around my bowels. Took two separate exploratory surgeries to figure out what was wrong. Those are like half an inch each. The surgery to fix it left a good 5-5 inch scar running down from my belly button. And while they were doing that they found a hernia on each side of my groin. Had those removed the day after 7th grade ended. Probably about 3 inch scars from those surgeries.

I graduated high school in 09, so that was all when I was 12/13._________________